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From: golson@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM (Greg Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Manx 5.0 problems
Message-ID: <35312@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM>
Date: 22 Feb 90 20:25:07 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mtn View, CA
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Hi everyone.  I've been using Manx 5.0 for a little while, and thought I'd 
post a few problems I've run across.

	1)  mktemp seems to be missing from c.lib and all permutations(c16.lib,
	etc.)  Sounds kind of like realloc from 3.6, right?....

	2)  Though format.o is an object module archived in c.lib, try writing
	a small program which tries to access format(). (something like
	main(){format();}).  I think you'll find that you get an unresolved
	error at link time.  Doing a cnm on format.o, it seems that the function
	is called _format, but I'm really not sure.  Got a message into Manx
	about this.

	3) (Probably the most frustrating)  It seems that Manx doesn't handle
	using new style prototyping and old style function definition parameter
	promotion correctly.  For instance:

		int test_func(int);	/* HAS TO BE INT FOR ANSI */
		main(){test_func('X');}
		int test_func(y)
		char y;
		{ printf("X = %c\n",y); }

	will not print X to the screen (as it should, by my understanding of
	ANSI promotion rules for new-style prototype/old style function
	definitions).

I have a few mail messages into Manx, but haven't heard word one as of yet.
Can anyone verify/dispute these?

	--Greg